Health - Jenn Hicks

On gratitude and sweet, sweet vaginas

By Jenn Hicks | January 30, 2012 |

(this post is SO not going where you might think it is from the title…) It is often that I say, “thank you, whomever is responsible, for the fact that I am living in this day and age“. When I think about my dad, living with (and succumbing to) mental health struggles back in the…

Aging and Exercise: Get up! Then down! And up again!

By Jenn Hicks | August 17, 2011 |

Nia: a Whole Body Workout In Nia, we aren’t moving just our arms and our legs. We are moving our whole body. Our torsos, chests, fingers, spine, toes, ankles, pelvis, heads — they all get mobilized during a Nia class. The truth is, if we leave any body parts out, they tend to get lonely…

5 Approaches to Self-Healing: The Nia Way

By Jenn Hicks | May 17, 2011 |

“You can fix a car or a bookcase, you can repair a television set or a computer, but you don’t heal them. And they don’t heal themselves. Only living systems heal; they don’t get fixed or repaired or anything like that….Healing is an act of self-recreation…..Living systems self-organize, self-create, self-maintain, and in many ways, direct…

Plantar Fasciitis: How Nia Healed My Foot Problems

By Jenn Hicks | January 20, 2011 |

I used to run 5 days a week, averaging 50-60 kms each week. Those were the days when I did a lot of high impact exercise: at that time I was also playing soccer, ball/ice hockey and doing step class. Eventually, along with shin splints, I got plantar fasciitis, which caused me a great deal…